Nottingham Forest will bring the curtain down on the 2025/26 campaign against Bournemouth at the City Ground on Sunday.
Forest have experienced turbulence during the campaign, although Vitor Pereira has finished it in style, securing survival at a canter and reaching the Europa League semi-final.
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Naturally, the summer transfer window will have fans feeling very anxious. Interest will likely be rife in Elliot Anderson, Murillo and Morgan Gibbs-White, with Forest keen to keep hold of their star men.
Last summer, the Reds signed 13 new players and that made for a chaotic summer as Forest prepared for a season playing Europa League football.
Paul Taylor shares how many players Forest want to sign this summer
The Athletic journalist Paul Taylor has this week been on the Forest Focus podcast, and he’s suggested how many players the Reds will sign.
He’s had word from inside the club that things might be a little less chaotic this summer, and that will certainly suit Forest supporters.
Six quality signings is what Taylor believes is the order of the day, with the hierarchy crucially wanting to keep hold of the club’s star players.
He said: “Yeah, I think when I say four, five or six, that’s just me patching together what I’ve heard a little bit. I don’t know definitively that Forest are going to sign four, five or six players. I just think we’ll be on that smaller scale of things rather than the 13 that we saw last year.
“I’d be amazed if it was anything close to that. Although I say that again with a significant caveat that this is Nottingham Forest. Look, talk to people at the club.
“We’ve written this in the Athletic in the last few days more than once. But there’s a feeling amongst the hierarchy and the coaching staff at Forest that they can keep the squad largely together. I think the exception to that, the reluctant exception to that, is potentially Elliot Anderson.”
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Given how many teams get in Europe from the Premier League these days, Forest has to believe they can get back into that situation.
This season hasn’t been good enough really, with far too much upheaval causing absolute chaos.
If Forest can use the Anderson money to reinvest in the squad and keep hold of most other players, the 2026/27 campaign could prove very fruitful indeed.
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